Mancham to dialogue with top Chinese business leader Yan Jiehe and former US President Bill Clinton on ‘China in the world today’ |16 July 2014

Former President James Mancham will be leaving Seychelles for Guangzhou in China to speak at the 4th Huatuo CEO Forum under the theme ‘Multinational Development of Chinese Private Enterprises’.

Prior to that, Mr Mancham, jointly with Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Paul Adam, will be hosting the Comesa Retreat of Elders in Seychelles between July 21-24.

The Guangzhou forum which is being hosted by Yan Jiehe, chairman of the China Pacific Construction Group and promoter of the Huatuo Economic Forum, is expected to be attended by over 1000 leading Chinese business leaders and such international dignitaries as former President Bill Clinton; the Hon. Tony Blair; Lee Myung-Bak, the 47th President of South Korea; Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia as well as the following dignitaries and Nobel Prize laureates: Janet Napolitano (chairman of the University  of California); Prof. Thomas Sargent (2011 Nobel Prize Economics); Edmund Phelps (2006 Nobel Prize in Economics) and Gene Sperling (chairman Economic Committee of Clinton & Obama Administrations).

Mr Jiehe is one of the most influential business figures in China today having won numerous awards such as ‘The most excellent entrepreneurs’, ‘One of the Top News Figure’, ‘Talented and influential Chinese business leader’.

He is consultant to over 100 local governments. Under his management and leadership, the China Pacific Construction Group has constructed projects across China covering 500 cities and over 1000 development zones and today the China Pacific Construction Group is considered to be one of the largest private enterprises in China. According to Fortune 500, China Pacific Construction Group is ranked as the 166th most important company in the world.

On the occasion of the opening of the event on Friday July 25, former President Mancham is to take part in an open dialogue on the subject of ‘China in the World Today’ with Mr Jiehe and former US President Bill Clinton before later delivering his keynote address.

In 2012, when attending a high-level conference in Chongqing, China, Mr Mancham befriended Albert Teo JP, who is assisting the China Pacific Construction Group in organising the Guangzhou conference.

The office of the former President has also availed of the opportunity to confirm that Mr Mancham’s new book – ‘SEYCHELLES – The saga of a small nation navigating through the cross-currents of a big world’ to be published by Paragon House, St. Paul, Minneapolis, USA has been completed and is now with the indexers. The book is expected to be launched in Seychelles in September 2014.